Dr. Balakrishnan K.P, MD., DM. (in cardiology), and FICC., is a highly accomplished senior cardiologist with over twenty years of professional medical practice. An expert in interventional cardiology, Dr. Balakrishnan has the distinction of having performed the first successful primary angioplasty, pacemaker implantation, elective angiogram, and left main angioplasty in South Malabar, Kerala.
Dr. Balakrishnan has also performed over 25000 angiograms and more than 8000 angioplasties during the span of his career. He has displayed proficiency in both academic and association activities and played a pivotal role in various international trials in interventional cardiology and diabetes.
Dr. Balakrishnan K.P, MD., DM. (in cardiology), and FICC., is a highly accomplished senior cardiologist with over twenty years of professional medical practice. An expert in interventional cardiology, Dr. Balakrishnan has the distinction of having performed the first successful primary angioplasty, pacemaker implantation, elective angiogram, and left main angioplasty in South Malabar, Kerala.
Dr. Balakrishnan has also performed over 25000 angiograms and more than 8000 angioplasties during the span of his career. He has displayed proficiency in both academic and association activities and played a pivotal role in various international trials in interventional cardiology and diabetes.
As a Central Working Committee Member of the IMA, Dr. Balakrishnan is well-recognized among the medical fraternity. He currently holds the prestigious post of President of the Indian College of Cardiology, Kerala Chapter and is a former President of the Interventional Cardiology Council of Kerala (ICCK). Dr. Balakrishnan had previously served as the President of IMA, Kozhikode, and Chairman of IMA AMS, Kerala. He was also the Chairman of the Research Cell of IMA, Kerala, and Vice-President of IMA, Kerala, and IMA, KSB.